500 Million Stories — As of this morning, 500 million people all around the world are actively using Facebook to stay connected with their friends and the people around them. — This is an important milestone for all of you who have helped spread Facebook around the world.

The Web Means the End of Forgetting — Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the caption “Drunken Pirate.”

A Joke iPhone Sticker Turns Into a Business — After Apple's iPhone 4 press conference last week, Szymon Weglarski and Jon Dorfman, two designers from Brooklyn, decided they would have a little fun with the iPhone 4's antenna problem. — They designed tiny bandages that fit perfectly around …

What Is Google Editions? — Someday soon—later this summer perhaps—there will be a major new development in the evolution of e-books: the launch of Google Editions. The initial success of Amazon's Kindle, Apple's iPad, and the e-book runners-up like Barnes & Noble's Nook and the Sony Reader …

Google takes the FTC to school — Google just issued a response to the Federal Trade commission's staff discussion draft on potential recommendations to support the reinvention [read: preservation] of journalism [read: newspapers]. (here was my reaction).

Inside BlackBerry 6: Multimedia Experience — Our team has been working hard to enhance the overall multimedia experience in BlackBerry® 6, and we've packed a lot of changes into the upcoming release. I'm very excited to be able to provide some more details about this aspect of BlackBerry 6 today.

Netflix Says Subscriber Total Jumped 42 Percent — Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) reported yet another big jump in subscribers. The company says it now has 15 million subscribers, up 42 percent from a year ago and up from 13 million during the first quarter of the year.

Inside Yahoo!'s Attempt To Reinvent The Portal — With sites like Twitter and Facebook increasingly vying with portals for people's time online, Yahoo! Media Vice President Jimmy Pitaro knows the role of aggregator is not enough. — That's why his 600 million-plus monthly users visit a site that is 10% original content today.

IP czar targets overseas pirate sites — U.S. President Barack Obama isn't the only government official who wants to smack down copyright infringement and counterfeiting. — During a hearing before the House of Representatives' Committee on Foreign Affairs, some congressional lawmakers …

Amazon Makes It Clear It Will Survive iPadmania — This is a phenomenal week to be covering the publishing industry. Tuesday, Apple released its quarterly earnings. Big surprise, another record-breaking quarter for the folks in Cupertino. A few billion here, a few billion there, blah, blah.